AT THE ATLANTIC GALLERY JUNE 16TH THROUGH JULY 23RD
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As the world’s second largest automaker, General Motors, files for bankruptcy, Atlantic Gallery announces its summer group show Sic Transit Gloria ~ The End of the Road, an exhibition of artwork concerning all things transit and transitory by over 50 artists. The complete phrase ‘Sic Transit Gloria Mundi’ translates as ‘Thus Passes the Glory of the World’, but recent headlines about increased congestion, pollution, and diminishing resources might imply ‘thus passes the glory days of cheap oil’ and the ‘free ride’ that came with it. Paintings, prints, photographs, sculpture relating to travel, actual and ephemeral; by plane, train, automobile or camel.
Thursday, July 9th at 6pm ‘Reinventing the Wheel’ will begin with the moving and rarely screened experimental film ‘FIETSEN; (Cyclists, 1965) by Dutch photographer Ed van der Elsken as he observes cyclists (and other means of transport) in Amsterdam, moving over the bridges on the canals. A lively discussion about the road ahead will follow with transit experts Paul Steely White, Executive Director of Transportation Alternatives, www.transalt.org; Dani Simons, Director of Strategic Communication NYC Department of Transportation, www.nyc.gov and a representative from Times Up times-up.org at Atlantic Gallery who will tell us what’s happening on our city streets this summer. |
Meredith Brooks
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